John 6:47

THE MESSAGE

"I'm telling you the most solemn and sober truth now: Whoever believes in me has real life, eternal life. I am the Bread of Life. Your ancestors ate the manna bread in the desert and died. But now here is Bread that truly comes down out of heaven. Anyone eating this Bread will not die, ever. I am the Bread—living Bread!—who came down out of heaven. Anyone who eats this Bread will live—and forever! The Bread that I present to the world so that it can eat and live is myself, this flesh-and-blood self."

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“Truly I tell you, anyone who believes

King James Version (1611)
Uerely, verely I say vnto you, Hee that beleeueth on me, hath euerlasting life.

King James Version
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.

English Standard Version
Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life.

New American Standard Bible
"Truly, truly, I say to you, the one who believes has eternal life.

New Century Version
I tell you the truth, whoever believes has eternal life.

Amplified Bible
"I assure you and most solemnly say to you, he who believes [in Me as Savior—whoever adheres to, trusts in, relies on, and has faith in Me—already] has eternal life [that is, now possesses it].

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes has eternal life.

Legacy Standard Bible
Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes has eternal life.

Berean Standard Bible
Truly, truly, I tell you, he who believes has eternal life.

Contemporary English Version
I tell you for certain that everyone who has faith in me has eternal life.

Complete Jewish Bible
Yes, indeed! I tell you, whoever trusts has eternal life:

Darby Translation
Verily, verily, I say to you, He that believes [on me] has life eternal.

Easy-to-Read Version
"I can assure you that anyone who believes has eternal life.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Verely, verely I say vnto you, hee that beleeueth in me, hath euerlasting life.

George Lamsa Translation
Truly, truly, I say to you, He who believes in me has eternal life.

Good News Translation
I am telling you the truth: he who believes has eternal life.

Lexham English Bible
Truly, truly I say to you, the one who believes has eternal life.

Literal Translation
Truly, truly, I say to you, The one believing into Me has everlasting life.

American Standard Version
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth hath eternal life.

Bible in Basic English
Truly I say to you, He who has faith in me has eternal life.

Hebrew Names Version
Most assuredly, I tell you, he who believes in me has eternal life.

International Standard Version
Truly, truly I tell you, the one who believes in mein me">[fn] has eternal life.John 3:16,18, 36,6:40;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
AMEN, amen, I say to you, Whosoever believeth in me hath the life which is eternal.

Murdock Translation
Verily, verily, I say to you: That, to him who believeth in me, there is life eternal.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Ueryly veryly I say vnto you, he that putteth his trust in me, hath euerlasting lyfe.

English Revised Version
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth hath eternal life.

World English Bible
Most assuredly, I tell you, he who believes in me has eternal life.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Verily, verily I say unto you, he that believeth on me hath everlasting life.

Weymouth's New Testament
"In most solemn truth I tell you that he who believes has the Life of the Ages.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Sotheli, sotheli, Y seie to you, he that bileueth in me, hath euerlastynge lijf.

Update Bible Version
Truly, truly, I say to you, He that believes has eternal life.

Webster's Bible Translation
Verily, verily, I say to you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.

New English Translation
I tell you the solemn truth, the one who believes has eternal life.

New King James Version
Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me [fn] has everlasting life.

New Living Translation
"I tell you the truth, anyone who believes has eternal life.

New Life Bible
For sure, I tell you, he who puts his trust in Me has life that lasts forever.

New Revised Standard
Very truly, I tell you, whoever believes has eternal life.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Verily, verily, I say unto you: He that believeth, hath life age-abiding.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Amen, amen, I say unto you: He that believeth in me hath everlasting life.

Revised Standard Version
Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes has eternal life.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Verely verely I saye vnto you he that beleveth on me hath everlastinge lyfe.

Young's Literal Translation
`Verily, verily, I say to you, He who is believing in me, hath life age-during;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Verely verely I saye vnto you: He that beleueth on me, hath euerlastinge life.

Mace New Testament (1729)
I declare unto you, he that believeth on me hath everlasting life.

Simplified Cowboy Version
"Listen to the truth. Anyone who rides for me has eternal life.

Contextual Overview

²⁸ To that they said, "Well, what do we do then to get in on God's works?" ²⁹ Jesus said, "Throw your lot in with the One that God has sent. That kind of a commitment gets you in on God's works." ³⁰They waffled: "Why don't you give us a clue about who you are, just a hint of what's going on? When we see what's up, we'll commit ourselves. Show us what you can do. Moses fed our ancestors with bread in the desert. It says so in the Scriptures: ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.'" ³²Jesus responded, "The real significance of that Scripture is not that Moses gave you bread from heaven but that my Father is right now offering you bread from heaven, the real bread. The Bread of God came down out of heaven and is giving life to the world." ³⁴ They jumped at that: "Master, give us this bread, now and forever!" ³⁵Jesus said, "I am the Bread of Life. The person who aligns with me hungers no more and thirsts no more, ever. I have told you this explicitly because even though you have seen me in action, you don't really believe me. Every person the Father gives me eventually comes running to me. And once that person is with me, I hold on and don't let go. I came down from heaven not to follow my own whim but to accomplish the will of the One who sent me. ³⁹"This, in a nutshell, is that will: that everything handed over to me by the Father be completed—not a single detail missed—and at the wrap-up of time I have everything and everyone put together, upright and whole. This is what my Father wants: that anyone who sees the Son and trusts who he is and what he does and then aligns with him will enter real life, eternal life. My part is to put them on their feet alive and whole at the completion of time." ⁴¹At this, because he said, "I am the Bread that came down from heaven," the Jews started arguing over him: "Isn't this the son of Joseph? Don't we know his father? Don't we know his mother? How can he now say, ‘I came down out of heaven' and expect anyone to believe him?" ⁴³Jesus said, "Don't bicker among yourselves over me. You're not in charge here. The Father who sent me is in charge. He draws people to me—that's the only way you'll ever come. Only then do I do my work, putting people together, setting them on their feet, ready for the End. This is what the prophets meant when they wrote, ‘And then they will all be personally taught by God.' Anyone who has spent any time at all listening to the Father, really listening and therefore learning, comes to me to be taught personally—to see it with his own eyes, hear it with his own ears, from me, since I have it firsthand from the Father. No one has seen the Father except the One who has his Being alongside the Father—and you can see me. ⁴⁷"I'm telling you the most solemn and sober truth now: Whoever believes in me has real life, eternal life. I am the Bread of Life. Your ancestors ate the manna bread in the desert and died. But now here is Bread that truly comes down out of heaven. Anyone eating this Bread will not die, ever. I am the Bread—living Bread!—who came down out of heaven. Anyone who eats this Bread will live—and forever! The Bread that I present to the world so that it can eat and live is myself, this flesh-and-blood self."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

He that: John 6:40, John 6:54, John 3:16, John 3:18, John 3:36, John 5:24, John 14:19, Romans 5:9, Romans 5:10, Colossians 3:3, Colossians 3:4, 1 John 5:12, 1 John 5:13

Reciprocal: Matthew 5:18 - verily Matthew 19:16 - eternal Matthew 26:26 - Take Mark 8:8 - and were Mark 14:18 - Verily John 1:51 - Verily John 3:15 - whosoever John 6:26 - Verily John 6:53 - Verily John 6:58 - General John 10:28 - I give Acts 16:31 - Believe Romans 3:25 - through Romans 4:11 - father 1 John 2:25 - General 1 John 5:11 - God

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Verily, verily, I say unto you,.... This is a certain truth, and to be depended on:

he that believeth on me hath everlasting life; not only he may have it, as in John 6:40, and shall have it, but he has it; he has it in Christ, his head and representative; he has it in the covenant of grace; he has it in faith and hope; he has a right unto it, and a meetness for it; he has the earnest of it, the grace and Spirit of God; and he has the beginning and foretastes of it in his soul, and shall certainly enjoy it.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 47. Hath everlasting life. — He is entitled to this, on his believing me to be the Messiah, and trusting in me alone for salvation. Our blessed Lord recapitulates here what he had said in the preceding discourse. The person who is saved is,

1. drawn by the Father;

2. hears his instructions;

3. accepts the salvation offered;

4. is given to Christ Jesus, that he may be justified by faith;

5. is nourished by the bread of life;

6. perseveres in the faith;

7. is not lost, but is raised up at the last day; and

8. is made a partaker of eternal life.